Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-29
RECREATION PARK.
Work Advancing Rapidly, and the Open
ing VIII Take Place Next Sunday.

| Work Advancing Rapidly, ana the open
ing VIII Take Place Next Sunday.
| At the new Recreation Park, Twenty
eight and r streets, force of between
twenty and thirty men are pushing the
work of preparation with great vigor, I'M
der the direction of James L. ellis, Super
intendent of the Grounds, and F. Cady,
contractor for the wood work. The frame
work of the grand and special stands,
which is of a very substantial character is
| all in place. and the sheathing of the roofs
was in progress yesterday. The seats are
all in position in the grand stand, which is
$50 feet long, with ten rows of seats, well
elevated and with plenty of room between
them to allow people to pass those sitting
down. The special stand, over the back
stop, which is to be for reserved seats, will
contain $50 chairs The view of the game
from this stand will not be any better
than from the other. except as to
furnishing opportunity for watching the
curving of the balls and forming an opin-
ion as TO the accuracy of the umpire in
calling balls and strikes. Its front will be
protected by a wire screen. This stand
will be convenience to ladies and gentle
men who are little late in reaching the
Park, and who would prefer to pay some
thing additional to secure good seat.
Every play made in the field can be OBJ
served from the grand stand. In front of
it, at distance of ten feet, there will be
three.foot fence to prevent spectators from
interfering with the players. The re-
porters stand will be on the ground, at the
southern end of the special stand. 1t will
only be large enough for half dozen peo-
pie, and none but those reporting the game
will have admission to it. The dressing
rooms for the players will be beneath the
southern end of the main stand, access to
them being gained from the diamond. The
saloon will be beneath the northern end of
the stand will be 80 feet by r. and so ar
ranged that the interior will not be visible
to people passing in or out of the grounds.
There will be a space of about twenty feet
between the stands, which will be for the
main entrance. The ticket Office will be
conveniently arranged Rear this entrance,
and holders of tickets will pass in through
two small gates within the main gate, the
latter being thrown open when the game is
over. Vehicles will enter from Thirtieth
street, and there will be railing across the
grounds to which the horses can be hitched.
The fence posts are all in place, and the
boards are being put on rapidly 1t will
be ten feet high on the north side, next the
railroad track, and eight and one-half on
the south side. Men were engaged yester-
day in widening the railroad embankment,
for the convenience of people getting on
and off the cars. A person who saw the
grounds few days ago would scarcely be-
lieve 1t possible they could be put in as
good shape as they already are so soon.
The soil was so thoroughly baked that.
never having been worked, it was impossi-
BILE to break it with pillow or harrow, even
after a great deal of water had been put
upon it. Under these circumstances, it
was determined to have men cut it up with
picks for the space needed for the diamond
and in Its immediate vicinity. This was
done, but the clods were as unyieldng as
cobbles, and the ponderous roller had no
effect upon them. Men with mauls there
upon followed the pickers, and crushed the
Jumps one by one. 1t was a tedious Job.
but the result is a diamond level and
smooth. A small city water main has been
extended 10 the vicinity, and by this even
ing pipes from it will be in the inclosure.
The diamond and vicinity will then be
given a thorough wetting, to be fol-
lowed by narrowing and a thorough
rolling, and when the first game
is called it will be in perfect order The
backstop, will be the regulation distance
80 feet-back of the plate, and will be 10
feet high. On passed ball player will
w W do BASES SS ne can
make. There will be score board 2S feet
long, on the south side of the Enclosure.
The score will be kept upon clock-like
dlals, showing the innings and tallies. By
arrangement with the Postal Telegraph
Company, that organization will lead a
wire to the Park and have an operator in
the scorers stand who will receive the re-
turns of games played at San Francisco.
inning by inning. and they will be dis
PLAYED upon the bulletin board alongside
OF the game in progress here, while the
result of each inning of the Sacramento
game will be telegraphed to San Francisco
and elsewhere.
Great interest is being manifested in the
work at the Park by Sacramentans inter
ested in baseball, and there are a great
many lookers-on in the daytime, and in
the evening it is taken in " as one of the
things to be seen by those out for drive.
The opening will doubtless attract an i'm
mense turnout of Sacramentans, and there
will be hundreds of visitors from abroad.
a special train will be run from Single
Springs, and large parties of excursionists
are coming from as far as Nevada City,
Colfax, Auburn. Marysville, Woodland,
Dayisville, etc. The game will doubtless
be hot one, as the Pioneers, though the
other clubs beat them handiIy, are the
hardest players in the League for the Atlas
to get away with.